b'C H A P T E R T H R E EPierce came prepared: he had formed a limited liability partnership under Delaware law and lined up a number of partners, at least eight of them Arabs. By no means was it clear that OMBY would continue operating as a boat yard, but Ennis felt his only choice was selling. Says his daughter, It was a very difficult decision. On November 6, 1981, they closed the sale at a price of $315,000.Gradually, the business at the boat yard changed. No more boat storage, no more maintenance services. That broke my fathers heart, recalls Nancy Geiger. It just added insult to injury when word whispered around that some developer wanted to turn OMBY into a dockominium, with boat slips sticking out into Stage Elarbor. When the plans were unrolled before the Conservation Commission in June 1982, according to The Cape Cod Chronicle, theydisplayed a concept for extensive dredging and installing 44 slips.2 And if there was no hitch in the paperwork, the transformation could start by late 1983.For the amateur sailors living near Stage Harbor, that prospect was alarming.Others voiced concern, too. Chatham needs more docking facilities, wrote Shareen Davis Eldredge in The Chronicle, but let it be town- owned and managed, not just for pleasureAs a teenager, Nancy Ennis boating, but for commercial boating as well. Geiger worked for her father at OMBY.Doing However, this wasnt the only source ofpayrolls for him drew her annoyance generated by real estate goings-oninto a career in accounting. in that immediate neighborhood. There wasToday she is Chathams the contretemps over Big Macs Tabernacle,assistant town accountant.at 89 Champlain Road. Gordon ZellnerA man of independent means, the Rev. Terence McDonald served as assistant minister at St. Christophers Episcopal Church in Chatham. Deciding to build a home overlooking Stage Harbor, he hired architect James Timpson and elaborately defined what he wanted. However, construction had no sooner gotten underway when McDonalds fortunes turned sour and the work stalled out; McDonald went into bankruptcy and finally left the scene in March 1982. The ark that he had ordered amounted to what neighbor Dr. Bea Barrett describes as the first mansion in the area .a monster that looks like it belongs in New Jersey.With the houses future murky, Edward Noyes Sr. of Stage Island and other officers of Monomoy Yacht Club made a pitch for converting it into a37'