The Wachowskis were shooting scenes set on the Prophetess, the schooner on which much of the nineteenth-century story takes place.
In 1851, the schooner America outraced the Aurora off the English coast to win a trophy that became known as the America's Cup.
The schooner is designed to generate its own energy, enabling people to remain on board for long periods without having to put in to harbour.
The schooner has travelled 62, 000 miles across the Atlantic, Pacific, Antarctic and Indian oceans investigating the effects of global warming on biodiversity and marine life, particularly focusing on marine plankton.
No deaths have been recorded during the actual racing since its inception in 1851, when Queen Victoria watched the schooner America beat a fleet of British ships around the Isle of Wight.
And, come September 2, its bays will be filled with head-turning vessels for the annual Gloucester Schooner Festival, bringing races, public sails, boat parades and fireworks to town.
Steven Schooner is the co-director of the government procurement law program at George Washington University's law school.
The four-piece band (violin, cello, harp and piano) plays with spirit and the cast sings with schooner-waving gusto.
"What is very, very difficult at this point is to go back and say who's responsible for the error, " Schooner says.
This 73-foot-long schooner is the stuff dropping-out-of-the-workaday-world fantasies are made of.
One spurned applicant, says Drummond, anchored his 150-ton schooner off the clubhouse and sent in a note saying he would commence shelling in 30 minutes unless the man who blackballed him--the son of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--personally apologized.
The most famous example is the Constellation, a 200-foot schooner which was writer Peter Benchley's inspiration for the book The Deep.
But Schooner says not all the blame rests with those government officers handing out the contracts, either.
So has Steven Schooner, co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University.
The material, which was loaded on a schooner sailing vessel, will be sculpted into a piece of art called Nowhere Island.
In one widely reported incident, venture capitalist Thomas Perkins was fined by a French court in 1996 after his 143-foot Herreshoff schooner collided with a smaller boat at the La Nioulargue Regatta in St.
"Schooner's MySQL and NoSQL solutions combined with the LSI WarpDrive card provide industry-leading performance for database and key-value stores, delivering over 9x performance throughput increase relative to hard drive configurations and over 3x performance throughput increase relative to alternative PCIe flash-based solutions, " said Dr. John Busch, founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technologies.
Schooner says contractors were often not given direction, and government officials awarding the contracts were not always honest about the security risks.
Not because the weather isn't bad, but because it's so severe that our schooner can't put to sea at all.
Ecolution, a 26m twin-masted schooner, is owned by Dr Ockels, a physicist and astronaut who became the first Dutch civilian in space, flying on the Challenger space shuttle on a Spacelab mission.
Also look for the Pride of Baltimore II, a 100-foot replica of a 19th-century privateer schooner.
Mr. STEVEN SCHOONER (Co-Director, Government Procurement Law Program, George Washington University): The fear at this point is there does not seem to be a centralized, sophisticated, well-organized planning institution within the government that's going to make good, rational, long-term decisions as to how the reconstruction is done before the government starts throwing money at the problems.
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