b"C H A P T E R T H R E Eopponent Lewis Horton, the whole scheme amounted to grandiose expansion, posed a traffic danger to the 200 youngsters using Stage Harbor Yacht Club, and implied that the advocates were going about the project piecemeal.Hortons forceful insistence: We dont want another Nantucket.Theeventual answer to the future of OMBY was out of sight over the horizon. Still, in and around the Stage Harbor area, a chain reaction had begun, and no safety rods would neutralize it. The neighbors, summer sailors all, were determined to protect their harbor, the focal point of a quality of life that drew them back to Chatham year after year.In the Landys Living RoomOn a Thursday evening in August 1983, some 50 people came together in the capacious living room of Lynn and Richard Landy on Champlain Road. Inthree terse paragraphs, the newspaper described this as the organizational meeting of the new Friends of the Stage Harbor Waterways.(Later on, the widened portfolio of the committee dictated changing the name to Friends of Chatham Waterways.)The women and men at the Landys had been invited to help determine what interest there would be in the proposed neighborhood group, what organization could be formed, and what its purposes might be.Interestingly enough, among the 50 on hand was the chairman of selectmen, William G. Along with her husband, Richard, Litchfield, current Town Moderator. Lynn Landy played a critical role The die was cast. Before breaking up,in creating Friends of Stage Harbor Waterways in 1983.the group agreed that a sequel meeting would be held on September 2. It would address structure and nominations, an agenda for an October session, Issues to Watch, the purpose of the new enterprise, and organization reports. No one among the eighteen at that second meeting (at the Champlain Road home of Judy and Pete Hoyt) doubted that Joan Kimball of Lincoln, Massachusetts, was precisely the right person to chair the proceedings.One early board vice-president, Spencer Grey, well remembers her persistence. Many mornings before I went off to work [at the Sail Loft], he says, I was on the phone with Joan. 'What are we going to do now? What should we do next? She was the one who did most of the organizing and was behind the thing.-39"