North Pole – December 18, 2025 – Santa’s Workshop has confirmed reports that this year’s Christmas logistics will use a multimodal transportation strategy. Santa’s sleigh will still travel the nighttime sky to deliver presents; however, select recipients will benefit from Santa’s recent acquisition of a rotomolded boat made by Gregstrom Corporation of Bedford, New Hampshire (USA).
“From the canals of Venice to the fjords of Scandanavia, some places are just plain easier reach by boat than by sleigh,” Santa explained. “We’ve been working with Gregstrom Corporation for years, and their recent move to New Hampshire brings them even closer to the North Pole. I was concerned about tariffs when I bought a new boat, but Gregstrom is like a next-door neighbor now.”
Gregstrom Corporation, a third-generation family-owned business, used rotational molding to create a custom watercraft whose details remain shrouded in mystery. According to a North Pole insider, however, Mrs. Claus insisted upon a plastics manufacturing process with cost-effective tooling and that supported polyurethane foam filling for buoyancy, cushioning, and impact resistance.
Two years ago, a pre-Christmas mishap during an unauthorized “joy ride” ejected several elves when Santa’s sleigh overturned. Fortunately, the North Pole’s investment in a rotomolded sleigh with foam-filled panels prevented serious injuries.
“I don’t want to revisit the past,” Mrs. Claus said while frosting Christmas cookies, “but Santa and are over 1700 years old. It’s time for him to be able to visit all the world’s good girls and boys without worrying about hitting a canal wall in Italy or a pine tree in Norway. He’s not a young elf, after all.”
Rotational molding is a plastics process with lower tooling costs, a key advantage for projects with large, one-of-a-kind items like Santa’s new boat. Rotomolding also supports molded-in hardware like boat cleats, hinges, latches, and vents. When rotomolded panels are filled with polyurethane foam, they add rigidity and low-temperature resistance while supporting lightweighting.
“Gregstrom is proud to be the North Pole’s manufacturing partner,” said Jeff DiDonato, company President. “We’re happy that Santa bought a rotomolded boat, but we’re also hoping that he and Mrs. Claus will get to relax with a post-Christmas cruise aboard Royal Caribbean.”
About Gregstrom Corporation
Since 1946, Gregstrom Corporation has been Santa’s trusted manufacturing partner. In addition to sleighs and boats, Gregstrom makes rotomolded parts and products for industrial, commercial, and medical customers. Visit our portfolio to see examples of rotationally molded products, or contact us for more information.
