Several readers have called or e-mailed to winder if there was a “reverse Parade of Sail,” when all the ships would be leaving Tacoma.

The answer is a definite maybe.

Most are scheduled to leave between 6-8 a.m. Some are leaving later. Others have already left or are staying around a while.

Here’s a breakdown of what ship is leaving and when:

About 4:45 a.m.:
● Oriole

Between 6-8 a.m.:
● Kaisei
● Bounty
● Merrie Ellen
● Nina
● Adventuress
● Mycia
● Lavengro
● Red Jacket
● Rejoice
● Lady Washington
● Mallory Todd
● Kia Ora
● Cutty Sark

Between 4-8 a.m.:
● Resolute

About 10 a.m.:
● Virginia V

Leaving tonight/already gone:
● U.S. Coast Guard Eagle
● Hawaiian Chieftain
● Zodiac
● Lynx
● Yankee Clipper
● Amazing Grace

Staying in the area:
● Charles Curtis (local boat)
● Tug Joe (local boat)
● Odyssey (for 10 days)
● Sydney Waite (for 10 days)
● USAR Tug (local boat)

Peter Haley/The News Tribune

In case you've missed some of the links to all the great multimedia available online for Tall Ships Tacoma, here's a list of the galleries, video, audio slideshows and 360-degree QTVRs we've put together so far.

• Gallery: Tall Ships Tacoma Parade of Sail

• Gallery: Setting sail with the tall ships

• Video: Learn about cannon battling on tall ships

• Gallery: Photos from the Tall Ships festival

• Gallery: Tall ships muster in Quartermaster Harbor

• Slideshow: It's a pirate's life

• Gallery: Aboard the USCG Eagle

• Gallery: Tall ships in Victoria, BC.

• 360 VR: Meet the Lady Washington

• 360 VR: Meet the Bounty

• 360 VR: Meet the Eagle

Securely moored, Eagle took on her first visitors in Tacoma.

Connie McCloud, representing the Puyallup Tribe, presented the ship with a blanket, a hand-woven basket and a hand-carved paddle.

Capt. Christopher Sinnett returned the honor with an engraving of Eagle.

Then Peggy McCloud introduced the students of Grandview Early Learning Center, Annalicia McCloud, 3, and shy, Cynthia LaPlante, 6, Jazmine Bluehorse, 8, Sidfredo Valdez, 9, Dairon Earl-Lovejoy, 11, Daylon Nelson, 12, and Damion Laplant, 7.

The children sang a welcome song to the crew, and followed it with The Eagle Song, dancing with their arms outstretched as they sang.

“I want to declare you all honorary Eagle crew members for the week,” Capt. Sinnett told them, and gave each of them a memorial Eagle coin.

The Lynx of Portsmouth, N.H., turns toward the Foss Waterway in front of Old Town Tacoma during the Parade of Sails today.

I just spotted our intrepid columnist on board the Eagle, which is now docked in the Foss Waterway.

The guy standing next to me, Bill Fleet, got some photos of her waving at me.

Fleet and his wife, Joan, spent the morning on the Cutty Sark. They got up at 4 a.m. and went to the Tacoma Dome to catch a bus to the ship.

In 2005, they went out on the Zodiac.

"You know, it's really wonderful it's here," Joan Fleet said. "I think it's really reflective of what's been happening in Tacoma. It's a real volunteer effort."

The USCG Eagle is making its way down Ruston Way, and there’s a sense of disappointment.

This has been the ship everyone was excited to see. It has an entourage of probably 50 other ships and a helicopter following it. But most of the spectators kept asking one question: “Why aren’t its sails up?”

“I think it would have been a lot more beautiful with the sails up,” Lakewood’s Charlene Baez said.

It was a common sentiment. Motoring in is likely much more efficient, but thousands didn’t pack Ruston Way to witness efficiency. They wanted looks.

“They should have had the sails up, even if they were still motoring,” Kent’s Mel Davis said. “Maybe get some fans out on board and blow wind into them.”

But, Davis and others said, seeing America’s Tall Ship cutting through the waters of Commencement Bay is still an amazing sight.

“It seems like an anticlimax,” he said, “but, really, how cool is it to see the Eagle here?”

UPDATE: Here's the answer from an earlier blog post from Kathleen Merryman, who's been on the Eagle since Monday.

Eagle motored into Seattle, just as she will into Commencement Bay. Her sails are massive, to give her speed and power. But because she is square-rigged, and so big, she does not have the maneuverability under sail to enter a confined passage with other vessels in the area.

The Eagle passed by a few minutes ago, and just like that everyone is leaving. Now everyone has to deal with the parking lot that is Ruston Way.

Overall, people seemed most impressed by the Bounty.

"It was the most realistic," said Michele Bazdyrev of Tacoma.

The Eagle was the last, but some were bothered that it didn't have it's sails down.

"I thought this was supposed to be a Parade of Sails," a woman complained while rushing through a crowd to leave.

There are pros and cons of simulated cannon blasts echoing across Ruston Way.

Pros: It sounds really cool. Gives the whole atmosphere an old-timey feel. Faithful readers of The News Tribune know the secret behind the white smoke.

Cons: If you’re standing where I just was – a little west of the Silver Cloud Inn on Ruston Way – the blasts makes one kid cry. And then another. And another. And soon, about 25 kids are all screaming and crying.