Mercer Island Northwest Mansions - Index - Nordstrom, Lytle, Galanti, Berg, Glazer, Ellison et al.

The following mansions are in earlier posts in this blog along with information about the mansions and their owners. Click on the highlighted heading or first picture to go to the respective posts.

Berg, Galanti, Dillon, Lytle, Edwards et al. Mansions

Mercer Island North - Mansions (click to go to)

East to West

Simpson, Sasaki et al. Mansions

Mercer Island Northwest – Mansions (click to go to)

North to South

Proctor Landing, Stroum-Glazer, Ellison, Nordstrom et al. Mansions

Mercer Island West-North - Mansions

North to South

       (Updated 5/19/13)

Page numbers refer to Lake Washington 130 Homes

Click on Mercer Island Southwest Mansions – Index for the index for mansions to the south.

Mercer Island Southwest Mansions – Index – Zorn, Paul Allen, Holmgren et. al

The following mansions are in earlier posts in this blog along with information about the mansions and their owners. Click on the highlighted and underlined heading to go to the respective posts.

North to South

Mercer Island West – Central – Mansions (click to go to)

Paul Allen’s Campus (click to go to)

North to South

Mercer Island Southwest – Mansions (click to go to) 

Page Numbers refer to Lake Washington 130 Homes

Click on Mercer Island East Channel – Mansions – Index for the index for mansions to the east.

Mercer Island East Channel Mansions – Index – Ferry, Rosa, Devenuti, Lewis, Blethen, Onetto, Humphrey, et. al

The following mansions are in earlier posts in this blog along with information about the mansions and their owners. Click on the highlighted and underlined heading to go to the respective posts.

South to North

Mercer Island East Channel South – Mansions (click to go to)

North to South

Newport Shores - Mansions (click to go to)

Southeast to Northwest

Mercer Island East Channel North - Mansions (click to go to)

The index for the tour of Lake Washington Map of the Stars^® Mansions continues with Simonyi, Myhrvold, Brotman, Obama, McCaw – Mansions Medina South – Bellevue West – Index (click to go to)
Page Numbers refer to Lake Washington 130 Homes

Medina South – Bellevue West – Mansions Index – Simonyi, Myhrvold, Brotman, Obama, McCaw et. al

The following mansions are in earlier posts in this blog along with information about the mansions and their owners. Click on the highlighted and underlined heading to go to the respective posts.

South to Northwest

Bellevue Meydenbauer Bay East – Mansions (click to go to)

  

Medina Meydenbauer Bay West – Groat Point - Mansions (click to go to)

Medina South - Mansions (click to go to)

 The index for the tour of Lake Washington Map of the Stars^® Mansions continues with Gates, Bezos, Shirley, Mastro, Romney - Mansions Medina West Index (click to go to).

Page Numbers refer to Lake Washington 130 Homes

Boat Show – Seattle – 2013

800 Occidental Ave So, Seattle - CenturyLink Field

Hours: Mon-Thur 11am – 8pm

               Fridays     11am – 9pm

               Saturdays 10am – 8pm

         Sunday 1/27   10am – 6pm

         Sunday   2/3   10am – 4pm

This is the biggest boat show on the west coast. The show features more than 1,000 yachts and boats plus the latest accessories and supplies. There are more than 200 interesting boating and fishing seminars. www.seattleboatshow.com.

Dykstra Seminars – W 1/30 - 6:15 - Yellow Room and F 2/1 - Noon - Red Room

The 1/30 seminar title is “Pontoon Boats in the PNW: Pros vs Cons.” Pontoon boats are sweeping the country but are just starting to become popular in the PNW. The new generation of pontoon boats uses modern multi-hull technology. But what are the drawbacks? We will present the pluses and minuses.

The 2/1 seminar title is “Cruising Lake Washington: Navigating the Locks, Where to Dock, Anchor, Party and Dine!” Lake Washington is a fabulous boating destination but is often overlooked by salt-water boaters. There is great anchoring where you can swim in 75º fresh water. We will discuss the many things to see and do including viewing the fabulous mansions on “The Map of The Stars.”

The Boat Show’s main location is indoors at the CenturyLink Field Convention Center. In addition the Show has exhibitors showing large yachts in the water at South Lake Union. There is free shuttle service between the two locations.

I will be exhibiting at Captain’s Nautical Supplies, booth Concourse 2240 and will be there most of the time. I will occasionally be at Tom’s – Avalon Luxury Pontoon Boats, booth North 161. I bought my new Avalon (Avalon video) luxury pontoon boat (boating blog and video) from Tom at 2011’s show. I recommend you stop by and see some of the perfect boats for the PNW. www.TomsBoatShop.com.

Go to Dykstra Boat Show pdf for more information including hours, directions and a map. Call my cell – 206-931-6065 for show passes.

Medina West Mansions - Index - Gates, Bezos, Shirley, Mastro

The following mansions are in earlier posts in this blog along with information about the mansions and their owners. Click on the highlighted heading to go to the respective posts.

Medina Southwest - Mansions

South to North

Bill Gates

Medina Northwest - Mansions

South to North

Medina Evergreen Point - Mansions

Southwest to Northeast

The Index of the tour of Lake Washington Map of the Stars^® Mansions continues with Hunts-Yarrow Point Mansions Index.

Page Numbers refer to Lake Washington 130 Homes.

Pontoon

Little Big Town's Pontoon video was the number one music video on Country Music Television's (CMT's) chart this summer. It has 9 million views and is fantastic.

LBT’s performance of Pontoon on a pontoon boat on the stage "rocked the house" on June 6 at the 2012 CMT 2012 Music Awards. This was Little Big Town’s (LBT’s) debut of Pontoon on national TV and for a standing-room-only audience at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.

My new Happy Hours "Pontoon" video featuring this hit song “Pontoon” with Little Big Town was uploaded June 6 and has 135,000 views from 127 countries!

If you missed my appearance on KING 5 Evening Magazine on 7/16 click here.

Pontoon boats are sweeping the country but are just starting to get popular in the PNW. The new generation of pontoon boats uses modern multi-hull technology to create the best performing and most comfortable boats of their size and price. We have used our pontoon boat, Happy Hours, more than any of our friends have used their comparable in size single hull boats. Our boat is ready to board and can be used at the dock as a living-room/cocktail-lounge or quickly launched to enjoy the lake in comfort and luxury.

Dear family and friends – If you missed going out with us this year, please call or email early for an outing next year. We love sharing our fun experiences!

2012 Summer on Lake Washington

 

2012 summer in Seattle set the record with 81 days (mid July through mid October) with less than 0.03 inches of rain. The Dykstras’ summer on Lake Washington was the best ever! We were out on our boat, Happy Hours, 53 days with family and friends. Comments from out-of-towners include, “Our most memorable day in the Seattle area.” Comments from locals include, “The best day of our summer.”

This is our second year with the boat and its reputation has grown. The number and length of visits from relatives and out-of-town friends increased. The grandkids learned to water ski behind the boat. Everyone loves the water slide! We’ve relaxed viewing the Map of the Stars, just enjoying the lake, going to waterfront restaurants and sunset rides. We viewed houses for sale and sold with Realtor friends and their clients. We’ve had slow rides pulling the big tube and higher-speed extreme tubing and water skiing.

Because the boat has flat decks and a fabulous stereo system, we’ve had wonderful dance parties on the boat. We've had fantastic party times on the boat with the flotillas at Boating Opening Day, the 4th of July on Lake Union, Seafair, and in the party coves of Andrews Bay, Meydenbauer Bay, Fairweather Bay, and Cozy Cove. We took the boat through the locks to Poulsbo and it performed beautifully in the Sound. We joined the Rainier Yacht Club which is known as “The Fun Club” and had a lot of fun with the club members and activities. I have 3,873 pictures and movies taken this year and I am in the process of editing them. The best of the summer are up on a new Happy Hours 2012 Picasa web album. Because of all the above, my golf scores are up and I am way behind in posting to this blog. I will be catching up!

Hunts-Yarrow Points Mansions Index

The following mansions are in earlier posts in this blog along with information about the mansions and their owners. Click on the highlighted heading to go to the respective posts.

Hunts Point West – Fairweather Bay - Mansions

South to North

Hunts Point Northeast – Cozy Cove - Mansions

North to South

McCaw Family – Kenny G – Mansions 
Cozy Cove

Hunts Point Southeast – Cozy Cove – Mansions
North to South

Yarrow Point Mansions

Southwest to Northeast