culminate with a Parade of Sail on Monday.

Open house on selected ships will continue today from noon to 4 p.m.

At 6 p.m., designated Hamilton streets will be closed to traffic and there will be a Tall Ships Trainee Parade led by the Bermuda Regiment Band through Hamilton.

The parade will start on Pitts Bay Road adjacent to Barr's Bay Park and proceed down Front Street to Court Street.

After circling the Cabinet building, the parade will travel along Reid Street and up Queen Street to the City Hall car park where there will be a prize giving at 7.30 p.m.

Prizes are to be presented by Governor Thorold Masefield.

From 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. there will be a cultural talent show at the car park featuring talent off the tall ships and local talent -- including the Bermuda Gombeys.

The tall ships' open house will continue tomorrow from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

At 4 p.m., there will be a blessing of the fleet and Ecumenical service at the Flag Pole on Front Street.

A concert in the Park at the Hamilton City Hall car park, which is being hosted by the Mayor and Corporation of Hamilton, will feature a variety of local entertainers between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m.

The culmination of the tall ships festivities will kick off on Monday with the Parade of Sail.

The ships will depart Hamilton Harbour at 7 a.m. and assemble in the Great Sound.

The Mir is scheduled to start the race and pass Buoy 34 at noon before sailing down North Shore, past Fort St. Catherine and off St. David's Head.

Members of the public have been encouraged to take to the water in their boats, but have been asked to keep clear of the ships and to not use channel 12 on the radio as this will be for tall ships' communications during the start of the race.