About the Author

Captain Jack Dodd (1902-1978) was noted for his unorthodox observations on Newfoundland history. In the early 1920s he went to sea. By the time he retired in the 1970s he had been shipwrecked, had sailed three times around the world and had many adventures, some of which he recounted in a story called "Shanghaied" which ran in four installments in the New Bedford Standard Times in Massachusetts. He took up prospecting for minerals in Canada and the United States before Newfoundland joined Canada, and upon his return to Newfoundland became a prolific letter-writer to local newspapers on a variety of issues about which he held passionate views: the fishery, Newfoundland politics, municipal politics, local economic and development issues. He is the author of two published works: Wind in the Rigging and Cabot's Voyage to Newfoundland.