The North River fire company, FDNY’s Marine 1, had both their big Three Forty Three boat and their small alpha boat on the water Saturday afternoon. We don’t normally see both of these boats on the water together, I believe because they are crewed by the same company, with the nature of the emergency determining which boat responds to a call. But there were a large of number of people in civilian clothes on the deck of the Three Forty Three and this was perhaps a special occasion or maybe holiday event for family. They were out for less than an hour, making a quick loop up to Pier i and then back to the Pier 53 base.