View Full Version : Elena's Stunning Yacht
Marauder386
10-16-2006, 08:25 PM
A direct quote form the November issue of Cars and Parts magazine :
Elena Fords 131-foot yacht, Unity, is one of the most talked about boats on the Great Lakes. Elena, 40, is a great-great-granddaughter of Henry Ford and a granddaughter of Henry Ford II. She is director of Ford North American product marketing, planning, and strategy.
The Unity has three decks, winding staircases, dark windows, and a deep blue aluminum hull. She draws crowds wherever she docks. Most spectators simply ooh and ahh. But some, states the Detroit Free Press, question whether or not a Ford should have such a luxurious yacht at a time when the struggling company is closing plants and reducing employment. The boats cost is unknown but yachting experts estimate "millions".
The boat is 28-feet wide, has a cruising speed of about 14 knots, and can comfortably sleep 10. She is docked at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club off Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, not far from Elena's home in Grosse Pointe Farms.
Although Elena's yacht is impressive, it's small compared to the worlds biggest yachts, the 452-fot Rising Sun, owned by Larry Ellison, head of software giant Oracle and the 414-fot Octopus, owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. The Rising Sun cost $377 million: the Octopus $240 million.
Now I know where the money saved by killing the Marauder went to !
:mad: :mad2: :mad: :mad2:
:cool:
Donny Carlson
10-16-2006, 09:08 PM
http://www.shipspotting.com/uploads/photos/84251.jpg (http://www.shipspotting.com/uploads/photos/84251.jpg)
Her and her hubby paid $17 million to have the Grosse Point harber dredged out so it could handle the Unity. She's the daughter of a greek shipping magnet Stavros Niarchos and one of the Ford heirs, Charlotte Ford. She dropped her greek last name for the Ford name... her mother had divorced the greek by then.
This is Elena Ford:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Ford-Elena_430.jpg
She's now 40, married to a plumber who has >shocked< the Ford family for doing such unhead of things as actually doing his own repairs to their Hamptons mansion.
She started out in a mid-level marketing job landed with her Ford name (she had no previous automobile industry experience) and worked her way up the ladder to her postion now which directs what cars Mercury and Lincoln will be bringing out in the future. Read it an weep, gear heads.
Marauder386
10-16-2006, 10:21 PM
Donny, with all due respect to your rank and title, your reply only tweaked me up a little more...but its only my jealousy, I guess, for what the rich and famous can get accomplished for their own comfort...I digress, so I shall just shake my head and chuckle...
:cool:
Krytin
10-17-2006, 02:35 AM
I hope it sinks - it would be fitting since she is sinking the L/M brands!
Joe Walsh
10-17-2006, 04:01 AM
Sounds like she grew up learning how to spend money...but NOT how to make money!
Anxiously awaiting her next winning L-M Ad campaign.:mad2:
BTW: At least her yacht is stunning!
Bluerauder
10-17-2006, 04:07 AM
She is director of Ford North American product marketing, planning, and strategy.
She should spend more time on the boat and less time doing the directing. I am still trying to figure out why we continue to reward executives with multi-million packages when they drive the company into the ground.
Not sure what good the "yacht" is .... looks like it is useless for fishing and waterskiing. :rolleyes:
AstroVic
10-17-2006, 04:27 AM
Not sure what good the "yacht" is .... looks like it is useless for fishing and waterskiing. :rolleyes:
It's for entertaining all of those Toyota executives.
:rolleyes:
jim geary
10-17-2006, 04:43 AM
It's for entertaining all of those Toyota executives.
:rolleyes:
I'm afraid you've hit the nail on the head. Sad but true.It's a shame that so
many people are in decission making positions that have no idea what they
are doing or what the outcome will be. A real shame.:cry:
Fast4Door
10-17-2006, 08:48 AM
The expression "...worked her way up the ladder..." may be open for interpretation. Anyone find a list of "accomplishments" for her career?
O's Fan Rich
10-17-2006, 09:17 AM
We all seem to forget the basic principles of inheritance, once the money is made, 2nd gen money grows it, third and beyond blows it. It's a fact of life.
Hard working people who make the money have a nasty habit of spoiling their kids rotten, probabaly because they feel guilty about not really being around for them.
This is just further proof.... and yes I am jealous... I wanna Yacht.
Cheeseheadbob
10-17-2006, 09:22 AM
Rich, you could call her the "YANKEE CLIPPER" :D
This is just further proof.... and yes I am jealous... I wanna Yacht.
Haggis
10-17-2006, 09:31 AM
This is just further proof.... and yes I am jealous... I wanna Yacht.
You can have mine Rich. Its dock up on the Bronx river.
O's Fan Rich
10-17-2006, 09:54 AM
You can have mine Rich. Its dock up on the Bronx river.
What, you giving the Yankee players some consolation rides or something?:D :D :D
Maybe you run one of them boat tours like the Vikings took, eh? I wondered how you could swing that garage full of black beauties.... now it's coming into focus!
AstroVic
10-17-2006, 12:44 PM
This thread should be titled, "Elena's Stunning Looks."
Hahahaha....
hitchhiker
10-17-2006, 01:07 PM
At least Christina Onassis knew how to party!
:D
bigslim
10-17-2006, 01:15 PM
I can honestly say that she didn't catch her men with her looks. :lol:
Vortex
10-17-2006, 02:08 PM
So this is the haggamier who will likely ruin Mercury. From what Ive read, and maybe based on the zero traffic I noticed at my local LM dealer this morning, its a lost cause. Mercury should be the high end, high performance division of FOMOCO, not the waterfall grille, fake brushed aluminum division allegedly aimed at women and minority owners. Most women and minority folks I know would probably rather have a high end, high performance products anyway.
On an added note, whoever the idiot was that decided all cars made by any manufacturer had to have a "signature grille" should have his ass kicked. I can stand BMWs (maybe) but "Waterfall" Mercurys, Ovoid Buicks, 3 Bar Fords, split grille Pontiacs, Snowplow Cadillacs ect.... (I bet its the same person who did away with car names and came up with XLR, ZXR, BMT, EIEIO, SUX9000 ect.) Just venting.
jgc61sr2002
10-17-2006, 04:05 PM
I can honestly say that she didn't catch her men with her looks. :lol:
With her bucks she doesn't need any.:D
chrish
10-17-2006, 04:44 PM
Elena has gotten herself, & family , a fun toy .this cruiser is well under her means & should NOT be questioned .........you trolls.
For many ,if not most ,the MM is above your means. Elena is above reproach & is NOT used to your petty, subject like OR union style grapplings about her & her life.
LOOK HENRY FORD is her ggg grandfather.....chill -out. she & her folk have rights you DO NOT.
Elena is a very handson lady & this nonsense should be OFF the table to begin with
some here are SOOO petty & want everything there way .......Elena is who she is & you ( pessents & complainers) are who you are.!!!!
now go buy something to pay for the gas for that thing.............. this is a quote from HER people
\
by the way folk, the dredging of the canal was a NET profit for the ford family DA DA....the dirt is now on the roof of the ROUGH plant du'in it's thing....
you people do NOT understand anything....must every detail be explained?
GreekGod
10-17-2006, 05:35 PM
Elena has gotten herself, & family , a fun toy .this cruiser is well under her means & should NOT be questioned .........you trolls.
For many ,if not most ,the MM is above your means. Elena is above reproach & is NOT used to your petty, subject like OR union style grapplings about her & her life.
LOOK HENRY FORD is her ggg grandfather.....chill -out. she & her folk have rights you DO NOT.
Elena is a very handson lady & this nonsense should be OFF the table to begin with
some here are SOOO petty & want everything there way .......Elena is who she is & you ( pessents & complainers) are who you are.!!!!
now go buy something to pay for the gas for that thing.............. this is a quote from HER people
\
by the way folk, the dredging of the canal was a NET profit for the ford family DA DA....the dirt is now on the roof of the ROUGH plant du'in it's thing....
you people do NOT understand anything....must every detail be explained?
I'd like to be her "cabin boy"!
Donny Carlson
10-17-2006, 06:33 PM
She will inherit a nice chunk of the Niarchos fortune in 2009. The old man put his inheritance in trust not to pay out to heirs until that date. She's one of his daugters, so....
His and her yachts?
On a different but interesting note, take a gander at this...
This is a wedding announcement for Elena back in 1990. She was 24 at the time. This was her first husband, before she hooked up with the plumber:
http://www.farklempt.com/Letters/Images/ford.jpeg
Okay, you can see the resemblance to her photo posted earlier.
Now, take a look at her publicity photo on the media.ford website dated October, 2005
http://media.ford.com/images/large/people/FordElena_01.jpg<-- 2005 http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/NewEnterprise/ElenaFord.jpg <- 2006?
Joe Walsh
10-17-2006, 07:53 PM
This is a wedding announcement for Elena back in 1990. She was 24 at the time. This was her first husband, before she hooked up with the plumber:
http://www.farklempt.com/Letters/Images/ford.jpeg
Okay, you can see the resemblance to her photo posted earlier.
Now, take a look at her publicity photo on the media.ford website dated October, 2005 http://media.ford.com/images/large/people/FordElena_01.jpg<-- 2005 http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/NewEnterprise/ElenaFord.jpg <- 2006?
This just proves that: 15 years don't cure ugly!
bigslim
10-17-2006, 07:56 PM
She looks like a man. I guess some will say she is a "handsome" woman. I say she is "fugly".
Vortex
10-17-2006, 09:15 PM
She will inherit a nice chunk of the Niarchos fortune in 2009. The old man put his inheritance in trust not to pay out to heirs until that date. She's one of his daugters, so....
His and her yachts?
On a different but interesting note, take a gander at this...
This is a wedding announcement for Elena back in 1990. She was 24 at the time. This was her first husband, before she hooked up with the plumber:
http://www.farklempt.com/Letters/Images/ford.jpeg
Okay, you can see the resemblance to her photo posted earlier.
Now, take a look at her publicity photo on the media.ford website dated October, 2005
http://media.ford.com/images/large/people/FordElena_01.jpg<-- 2005 http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/NewEnterprise/ElenaFord.jpg <- 2006?
OK, I give up, which one is the plumber?
Krytin
10-18-2006, 03:28 AM
The one with the "plumber's crack" of course!
STLR FN
10-18-2006, 07:40 AM
http://media.ford.com/images/large/people/FordElena_01.jpg<-- 2005 http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/NewEnterprise/ElenaFord.jpg <- 2006?
Donny you need pelted with rocks for bringing up such an ugly comparo pic. :bricks:
Darryl she used her Venus Fly Trap to catch men.
chrish
10-18-2006, 06:49 PM
I'd like to be her "cabin boy"!
you greeks sure like large vessils........
appairently Elena is one of those vessils.
don't .........DO NOT
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.2.5 Copyright © 2025 vBulletin Solutions Inc. All rights reserved.