In one of his books he mentions a foreign license. If he said where from, I don’t remember. As for size, the tramp he ran around the Caribbean was less than 200ft with a 6 man crew.
Basically dos Equis’ most interesting man in the world. These clowns ought to come on here and defend themselves for the entertainment factor. Maybe the man behind Jeaux ought to make yet another account.
[QUOTE=Capt. Phoenix;166188]It is very vague on the timeline but it seems like he might have had about 10 years, between the mid 70s and mid 80s. Not much time to hawsepipe to Master Unlimited, but he could have gotten a smaller license. The bio also doesn’t mention how big these so called “freighters” were he sailed on the Caribbean.[/QUOTE]
obviously this clown’s entire life revolves around the corrupt cesspool that is Haiti. If he even holds a license it is likely from such a place where the certificate is little more than a worthless piece of toilet paper. He is plainly a high ambition low achiever who has a ton of degrees but only writes meaningless diatribes without having the real industry experiences to give his opinions an ounce of validity.
It is also now more than 48 hours since I called for him to qualify his asinine op-ed and so far not a peep from the cretin. I honestly believe he is too cowardly and won’t even try. PHUCKING PHARSICAL PHRAUDULAENT PHOOL!
Ship captain – 1986 to 1990
When Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier was overthrown as the ruler of Haiti in 1986, trade opened up between the United States and Haiti. The Miami River was the loading port for many small freighters in the Haitian trade. After Hardberger left crop dusting, he searched for and soon found work on the Miami River as the captain of a small freighter engaged in that trade. Among his commands was the Erika, a small freighter which transported cargoes throughout the Caribbean. Hardberger’s voyages on the Erika were the basis of his 1998 semi-autobiographical novel, Freighter Captain.
Recovering vessels – 1990 to present
Hardberger left the Erika to work for a Miami-based ship owner, MorganPrice & Co.,[16] as port captain responsible for overseeing port calls by the company’s ships. During this period, a MorganPrice freighter, the Patric M, was seized by a shipper in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. This action required Hardberger to sail the vessel out of port under the cover of night and without a clearance, in violation of Venezuelan law. This operation was Hardberger’s first vessel “extraction” and is detailed in his autobiography, Seized.
Hardberger left MorganPrice in 1990 to form his own marine consultancy business in Louisiana. He was periodically retained by shipowners to extract their vessels from lawless ports without a clearance from local authorities. In 1998, following his admission to the California Bar, Hardberger began to practice maritime law alongside his marine consultancy and vessel extraction business. In 2002, Hardberger formed the ship repossession company Vessel Extractions, LLC (“VessEx”) to extract vessels that have been illegitimately detained or seized in foreign countries. In 2004, Hardberger was featured in The Learning Channel series, Repo Men: Stealing for a Living, in a segment entitled “Repo Adventurer,”[1] documenting his extraction of a 10,000-ton freighter from Haiti during the 2004 rebellion and his delivery of the vessel to her mortgagee in the Bahamas.
Colourful person. But exactly how do you become a captain in USA? Im obviously wasting my time.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger-sea-captain-pirates-seized
I thought this kind of Americans was a myth. How is he not dead?
What is the meaning of all of this? Why are you cretins so concerned about the details of my life?
The PHUCKING PHARCE was one who got a lousy “tear sheet” license handed to him in the miserable old days in the GoM when the Coast Guard simply handed them out to any illiterate toothless 400# boob! How come I am not surprised?
Oilfield worker and pilot – 1977 to 1985
In 1977, Hardberger returned home to Louisiana to work as a deckhand and then as a mate on the oilfield supply vessel Magcobar Mercury in the Gulf of Mexico. After he earned a captain’s license…
He didn’t earn FUCK ALL in my book other that a self inflated ego…FUCKING ASSHOLE!
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ah…I see that Jeaukx Bawss Hogg returns in a clever disguise! You certainly ain’t phooling me!
Is that him posing for a faux-badass, tacti-cool wannabe Navy Seal photo? Good lord what a tool…
I have nothing to do with this pompous, bloviating, self aggrandizing gasbag!
I check in at lunch time and see that someone hasn’t hit the catnip this morning. It’s clear that all the voices in your head have manifested themselves here accordingly.
[QUOTE=Maximus Figmentum;166198]What is the meaning of all of this? Why are you cretins so concerned about the details of my life?[/QUOTE]
you need to change your username to maximus jactator…SIR!
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btw, I hold exclusive rights for using “cretin” in this forum. Please cease and desist forthwith or you will be hearing from my lawyer
hearing from his guy, it might prove detrimental to the use of your legs for the rest of your miserable life
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[QUOTE=Jeaux Bawss;166201]I have nothing to do with this pompous, bloviating, self aggrandizing gasbag![/QUOTE]
denials, denials but I do know that Joe Boss of the Bayou is absolutely and without equivocation behind preserving the Jones Act because without it, their mafia control on the business in the GoM is lost and suddenly they would be faced with competition from all the European and Asian offshore vessel owners. Much as I loathe Joe, I am shoulder to shoulder with him on this one.
[QUOTE=Kraken;166196]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger-sea-captain-pirates-seized[/QUOTE]
"And while I was at a loose end, I kept noticing cargo freighters being sold at super-cheap prices; so I thought I might get one. Within a couple of days I was a captain . . . "
Has anyone else noticed that there are at least two stories out there of his “first” ship recovery?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/14/max-hardberger-sea-captain-pirates-seized
Max Hardberger graduated from a “correspondence” law school who’s grads only qualify to take the California bar. He cannot be admitted in any other state. The school’s bar pass rate is only 26%, so he was one of their best students. I’d like to hear more about the size and success (if any) of his law practice.
I’d also like to hear more details about the ERIKA, on which he apparently got most of his seagoing experience. I bet it will turn out to be a little old 150’ foreign flag two hatch general cargo ship under 500 GT.
He may, or may not, be a good repo man, but how does that qualify him to comment on the economic impact of the Jones Act?
Workboat really ought to be ashamed of itself for having him onboard as a columnist.
“Freighter Captain” was the book I read.
In the first chapter the crew is leaving the ship becuase it is unsafe.
“Use this,” he growled. “This is what we used in the old days.” He tossed the bacon through the manhole. It landed on the shell plating with a slap. He staggered away. I heard his labored breathing as he hauled himself up the stevedore ladder. Yussuf and I looked at each other in the flashlight’s beam. “Crazy old man,” Yussuf said under his breath. “Bacon! Hah!” I reached through the lightening hole and picked up the slab. “I don’t know, Yussuf. It won’t matter after it rots away, because the cement will be all around it. And it’s a lot thicker than the gaskets.” We got the slab of bacon positioned over the leak, skin-side up, and put the steel plate on top of it. We rigged the brace and started hammering on the wedges again. This time when Yussuf shined the flashlight on the plating the leak was stopped. “I’ll be damned,” I said. “The old fool knows something after all.”
EPILOGUE * The MV Erika sank in August, 1989, on a voyage from Cartagena to Miragoane, under the command of Capt. Yussuf Adeeb. There was no loss of life.
in other words…he ain’t no maritime attorney at all but just a scumbag shyster
I’d also like to hear more details about the ERIKA, on which he apparently got most of his seagoing experience. I bet it will turn out to be a little old 150’ foreign flag two hatch general cargo ship under 500 GT.
looking for a photo and will post one if found but I suspect it would look just like all the other decrepit pieces of shit that pass for merchant vessels trading in the Caribbean Sea
He may, or may not, be a good repo man, but how does that qualify him to comment on the economic impact of the Jones Act?
it doesn’t in any way, shape or form
Workboat really ought to be ashamed of itself for having him onboard as a columnist.
indeed…they certainly should
Someone should write their editor. It’s obvious this guys is no friend of the American Maritime Industry, he was never even one of us.
[QUOTE=LI_Domer;166214]Someone should write their editor. It’s obvious this guys is no friend of the American Maritime Industry, he was never even one of us.[/QUOTE]
not to worry son…as always, c.captain is on the job and when penned, it will be copied here for all to read
they’re going to get quite an earful!
he’s just another maverick, like John McCain!
Funny, people look at me like I am an asshole when I don’t stand up for McCain.
He’s back! We irritated him. The goddamn phony.
http://www.workboat.com/international-waters/the-jones-act-hornet-s-nest
Does the assclown realize he won’t have a job with workboat if the jone’s act was repealed? Unless is secretly chinese, russian or greek he won’t really have any way to relate to those in the industry at that point.
My recent blog about the Jones Act garnered the expected vituperative responses, including a lot of name-calling and chest beating.
A few comments addressed substantive issues, to which I’ll respond here, but the majority consisted of rhetorical questions and ad hominem attacks that — other than being identified as such — don’t deserve a response.
One of my respected colleagues, Michael Hansen of the Hawaii Shippers Council, who comments frequently in the state’s news outlets on the Jones Act and its application to Hawaii, wrote in the Hawaii Free Press that my blog mischaracterized Sen. John McCain (R-Az.) as seeking repeal of the entire Jones Act. Mr. Hansen is correct that the bill Sen. McCain introduced in January was more limited in scope, but at the bill’s introduction he declared, “I have long advocated for a full repeal of the Jones Act, an antiquated law that has for too long hindered free trade, made U.S. industry less competitive and raised prices for American consumers.”
But there’s no reason to quibble over picayunes. Mr. Hansen and I have the same position: The Jones Act unfairly burdens residents of Hawaii. We were joined on July 30 by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which agreed that the Jones Act is protectionist, but held that the commerce clause of the Constitution gives Congress the power to enact protectionist — even burdensome — legislation. The outcome was so predictable that the lawsuit and appeal bordered on the frivolous, but the ruling does make it clear that if something is to be done about the Jones Act, it must be done through legislation. That means it must be done through politics.
This point was completely missed in a number of comments to my previous blog. Actually, I’ve had a number of clients who benefitted from the Jones Act. Thus, like the senator from landlocked Arizona, I don’t have a dog in the hunt. But the people commenting didn’t like my message and sought to avoid discussion by attacking the messenger. One troll got so exercised he started a forum in which a lot of people issued various obscene and anatomically impossible comments about Sen. McCain and me. Of course, the posters were all anonymous and the insults were run-of-the-mill. However, one accusation that I’m a “scumbag shyster” really cut to the quick. In fact, I maintain that for the record, I’m the other kind of shyster.
In any event, none of this tempest in a teapot dealt with the Jones Act itself, so I’ll state my position as clearly and briefly as possible: Any change to any law, and especially to an economic law, brings winners and losers. Repeal of the cabotage provisions of the Jones Act would help vessel owners and operators and American consumers, and it would hurt U.S. shipyard workers and mariners. But the Jones Act is currently doing the opposite — driving up costs to all for the benefit of a few — so repeal could be characterized as the righting of a longstanding wrong.
I’m not alone in taking this position. The Department of Homeland Security’s “Coastwise Trade: Merchandise” publication Coastwise Trade: Merchandise" publication states, “(T)he intent of the coastwise laws, including the Jones Act, was to protect U.S. shipping interests. The coastwise laws are highly protectionist provisions that are intended to create a ‘coastwise monopoly’ in order to protect and develop the American merchant marine, shipbuilding, etc.”
So assuming this issue is settled, the only remaining question is political. Do we as a nation want to “protect and develop” these special interests?
Since Sen. McCain’s bill was introduced, other business interests and writers have taken up the call for repeal. (Bryan Riley and Brian Slattery of The Heritage Foundation provided an excellent compendium of the reasons against the Jones Act earlier this year.) So even though the bill went nowhere, Sen. McCain is a determined man. If the next administration and Congress bring new attitudes toward the federal government’s role in social engineering, Jones Act supporters may have to engage in a discussion on its merits.
From what I know of Sen. McCain, just calling him names won’t help.
the gist of his arguement is that the jones act protects american businesses at the expense of american consumers; even if that’s true the extent is minimal, and any benefit would go to other country’s economy, not ours. what the fuck? John McCain’s whacky numbers show that the Jone’s act only costs each american a dollar or two a year. Big deal. There are expensive places to live, if its too expensive to live in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or Alaska, don’t live there! I’d like to live in a Miami highrise and bang hard bodied latina’s all day but I can’t afford it either.
Fix any one of a dozen other “social” issue in this country first!