Welcome to Rolly’s Blog, we have a series of interviews that were recorded with Rolly just after Christmas 2009, we would like to share with everyone through this blog. We asked Rolly a series of questions about his sailing and professional career and will post them on this blog on a regular basis. In this first video Rolly talks about his early sailing experiences growing up in Perth and also sailing in Mandurah.
If you have any questions you’d like to ask Rolly about this interview please post them here and Rolly will endeavour to answer them. In the meantime visit the Australian Sailing Museum and see this amazing collection for yourself.
In the next video Rolly will tell us why he went into the sail making industry.
Tags: America's Cup, Australian Sailing Museum, Mandurah, Museum, Perth, Rolly Tasker, Sailing, Sailing History, Western Australia
As a young sailor growing up in Melbourne in the early 60’s, eagerly reading Seacraft or any yachting publication, Rolly stood tall not only as a maker of fast sails but as an early Olympic medallist as well as an innovator. His effort in the 1962 world FD championship is an exercise in tenacity, typical of the man. Moreover he came from that faraway state to the west, home of so many fine heavy weather sailors. His biography is an insight into the life of someone with a real love of wind and water.
Great interview, also the biography of Rolly Tasker (Sailing to the Moon) goes into more detail in words and pictures of Rolly’s early life as described here. It continues as an interesting narrative and great story, easy to read right up to his latest achievements overseas and in Australia.