The story continues.

     After bowling we started as soon as we got home.  To the ten foot post we attached the 2"X 6" cantilever, carried it down to the water where all our equipment awaited and dropped it down into the water.  It is at this point that we should have had a camera crew ready!
     First we screwed a 2"X 6" support board of the appropriate length from beneath the above deck overhang out to the post so that it ran the required  7.5  feet out from the post.  It was to this the next post we were about to set would be attached.  It also would serve as to where we would position the post to be set and guide us as to the depth it would be set.  Right!
     Now we float our ten foot post with cantilever attached out twelve feet, juxtaposed to our support board marker and.......  Do you have any idea how buoyant the piece of lumber was?  I am up to my chin and Hubby to his shoulders, he would hold the top steady and raise it once I sunk the bottom to the appropriate position.  Now if you float the post so that the bottom approximates the end of the support board marker and the commence to sink the end of the post to the bottom, 4 feet down, and if you know geometry, you know the post bottom is not going to end up where you want it.  Add to this fact that it is taking my full weight to sink this buoyant beam which means my feet come off the ground!  So I would get it to the bottom, find it was in the wrong spot, hubby would lift it so I could reposition it, the bottom would start to float back to the surface.....and we repeat over and over until we are exhausted and bone weary and after two days to recover from a cut foot and two more days of exhausting struggles all posts are set.  Supports are screwed in but the last support was so deep in the water there is no way to get to it!  We will wait until tomorrow and try using a stepladder in the lake.  This should be fun.
     By the way,as we sat out on our partially demolished dock after supper, Hubby spots what he thinks is a very fast moving turtle.  It is not.  It is an eighteen inch long water snake.  He does not believe me and gets up to see.  As soon as Hubby spots it, it spots hubby and disappears in a flash.  "Is it poisonous?" he asks.  No I tell him, "As you can see they are very shy."
     This morning after breakfast and before bowling I go down to the lake and photograph our progress and there it is...the otters are back!  "Will they come after us?" hubby asks.  No they are mostly nocturnal and babies are not yet present.  But the den is beneath neighbors dock and it won't be long before babies are born .   We will have to hustle now.  The dogs are  ecstatic as they love to brak wildly at the otters.