NORFOLK, Va. — In seven months, the highly-anticipated Sail250 event celebrating America's semiquincentennial anniversary will set sail on the waterfront in downtown Norfolk.

Sail250 is an OpSail event featuring iconic international tall ships and military vessels that commemorates America's 250th birthday. Events will be held at other ports across the country, including in New Orleans, Baltimore, New York, and Boston.

For Sail250 Virginia, more than 60 ships from 20 countries and 7,000 visiting sailors, officers, and dignitaries will come to the commonwealth's shores, organizers say.

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Norfolk's event will be the largest celebrating the anniversary in Virginia, organizers added.

Sail250 is now looking for volunteers as they ge

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