Apparently we’ve been training for this our whole lives.
Scott and Audrey both grew up in Alaska. Boats, remote places, bad weather and figuring things out for yourself have always been part of life.
For Scott especially, that became something of a career path by necessity. Not because he wanted a “career path” – stuff just needs fixing so the hunting, fishing and adventuring can continue, and the cabin is still warm and the pantry stocked at the end of the day.
A lifetime spent working on the water, living remotely, building and fixing things, running boats, working with tools and machinery, documenting adventures, and generally learning how to make things work a long way from the nearest hardware store turned out to be pretty good preparation for Alaskan Viking Co.
Call it a graduate degree from the school of figuring it out. Continuing education ongoing.
Alaskan Viking Co isn’t actually new.
Alaskan Viking has been around in a variety of incarnations since 2018. It started with sawmilling, woodworking and furniture building, and over the years wandered into heavy equipment, excavation, welding, fabrication and whatever else the project required.
At the same time, Scott’s career as a photographer and filmmaker through Dickerson Stills + Motion was taking us around Alaska telling stories about adventure, wild places and the people who live here.
For years, those were mostly separate worlds.
Then came s/v Alaskan Gypsy
We salvaged our 80-foot steel motor-sailer in 2025 and moved aboard. Suddenly we had a home, workboat, workshop and equipment hauler capable of moving with us throughout Southeast Alaska.
And the lines started to blur.
We found ourselves using Gypsy to reach remote properties and take on the kinds of projects Scott enjoys most – difficult access, interesting people and problems that require more than one skill to solve.
Naturally, we started filming those projects too.
Then something clicked.
The jobs we enjoyed the most were also producing some of our best stories. Customers enjoyed following the work. Viewers became invested in the places and people behind it.
One customer even started hosting watch parties with friends in Juneau during winter storms to follow along on YouTube while Scott repaired the foundation of her remote cabin.
At some point we realized we weren’t just living aboard, taking on interesting jobs and making videos about them.
We were watching the next chapter of Alaskan Viking break its shell.
The boat makes unusual projects possible. The projects take us to interesting places and people. The work creates stories worth telling. And those stories lead us toward the next adventure.
So this is Alaskan Viking Co. today.
Part workboat. Part floating workshop. Part homestead rescue. Part storytelling operation.
We travel Southeast Alaska aboard Alaskan Gypsy, helping people build, repair, maintain and figure out the remote places they care about – and occasionally sharing the people and stories we find along the way.
Trees, timber framing, sawmilling, welding, mechanical problems, storm damage, property assessment, construction and the occasional problem nobody thought to put on the list.
Think modern-day Viking. Less pillaging, more fixing things.