The 2024 Chappy Community Center calendar can now be ordered online via the community center’s website. You can choose to pick yours up at the center or to have it shipped. Don’t be shy; order several. Every house on Chappy should have one and every Chappy college student should have one in their dorm room. Great photos as usual.

Yoga with Jay continues at the community center on Sundays at 8:30 a.m. Potluck suppers are scheduled for the third Wednesday of the month. The annual Holiday Tea is on Sunday, Dec. 10 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Out of the water maintenance work on the On Time III is proceeding. The weather has been uncharacteristically cooperative. New Sampson posts are being fabricated out of stainless steel to replace the rusty ones at the four corners of the ferryboat. The propellers are being refurbished to like-new condition. Worn spots on the deck are being repaired to keep water out of the wood. Two coats of antifouling paint have been applied. If there are no hiccups, the ferry will be back in service before Thanksgiving.

Two big concrete projects on Chappy couldn’t get done before the On Time III went out of service and couldn’t wait for it to return. The Goodale concrete mixer drivers got up extra early two days this week and got to the ferry by 6 a.m. On both days four trucks got over to Chappy before 6:30 a.m. to avoid taking up space in the regular waiting line. As one of the contractors commented, “We were done pouring concrete before most people were done with breakfast.”

Just a reminder, removing your trailer hitch reduces the length of your vehicle by about a foot. Often that extra foot of space on the ferry will be all that is needed to get a third vehicle on the On Time II. The On Time II is eight feet shorter than the On Time III. You may be getting over one or two trips sooner because people ahead of you removed their trailer hitches. Help your neighbors get over sooner.

The Octoberfish tournament has seen some big fish weighed in. Sign up with Larry’s Tackle Shop before you go fishing. Lots of good prizes and cash awards to be won.