In response to: Two Alumni Found Company to Build a Better Electric Boat Motor
Current issue
May 2026
The Attentionauts; Philip Stoltzfus ’79 and Lebanese American University in wartime.
The Attentionauts; Philip Stoltzfus ’79 and Lebanese American University in wartime.
“In 2025, Sorkin, who lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, bought a 22-foot Scout boat equipped with a Flux Marine outboard motor. He uses it for a 10-mile commute to the Bristol Marina, half a mile from the Flux facility.” Ten miles across Narragansett Bay, but 30 miles by car through Providence — an hour trip at rush hour. At 20 mph, the time is cut in half.