SkySail Redux Redux

I've written about the "SkySail" over the past year or so - at time with skeptisim, it's true. I believe at one point I had a comment posted from one of the executives insisting that it was real, yes, actual oceangoing freighters would employ what amounts to a giant spinnaker. And it seems that it has or will shortly come to pass...here's an account in The Scotsman that opines, "After four years of tests, it is anything but a pie-in-the-sky project." Maybe so. But the natural questions is, what happens in a broach?