Sailing Elysium

On a boat they built themselves, two determined souls chartered a life of dreams and discovery.

Helen Olson and her husband, Elmer, retired in their late forties to sail the Pacific Ocean and Oceania from 1979 - 1989 on a fifty -foot yacht they built themselves. "Sailing Elysium" is a personal account of that ten year adventure, as they immersed themselves in the cultures and traditions of the local people, venturing to twenty-seven major stay-overs in twenty-one countries. They left their s...