b'C H A P T E R SI XBefore residents assembled for that Town Meeting in spring 89, they had become targets for a blue FCW flyer calling on them to Protect Chatham Waters. Friends board members were hardly bashful about handing out this sheet. As Richard Batchelder recalls, director Judy Hoyt, staked out at the main Post Office, worked like a tiger to get people to take a copy of the appeal. Among items that FCW would support at the May 9 meeting, the flyer stated, was Article 33, budgeting funds for a pump-out station. Voters followed through, but there, as happens now and again in Chatham, the matter languished for months and months. As Duncanson reconstructs that puzzlement, writing the harbor management plan was underway at the time, and sometimes individual things get wrapped up in larger things and maybe lose their urgency. Budgetary difficulties at the time may have impacted the situation, too.To FCW, that delay seemed less and less acceptable. So board members elected to become, in Batchelders words, the guiding sponsor of the whole project, endorsing and promoting it.And thus,FCWback-flipped on stage to be itsIn years when Chathams cheerleader. selectmen were full-time, Dave Ryder managed to More than a year after residentshandle his tasks in three approved the dollars for a P. O. S., Martha Stone,terms on the board, while as FCW president, sent a memo to co-chairmentaking out fishing parties Dave Ryder and Kurt Hellfach of the harborwhen daylight hours management plan committee. While applaudingpermitted.Gordon Zellnertheir progress in writing the document, she said that recommendations on matters like implementation of boat pump-out facility plans. should go forward as aggressively and forcefully as possible.But the wind dropped, and two years drifted slowly by. Now, Lew Kimball, as FCW president, scheduled an executive committee meeting at his house September 17, 1992. Board member James Davis had gone earlier to a Waterways Committee meeting and reported, the minutes stated, There was no quorum & no one seemed to know about pump-out plans.That drew quick agreement: Mrs. Stone, Davis and Batchelder would prod Waterways Committee on this.More calendar pages fell to the floor, and the flow of time arrived at August 1993. Secretary Maureen Vokey, in her board meeting minutes, reported a83'