re: Has anyone made gumpaste sails before.

Could you use wafer paper? Or wafer paper backed with modeling chocolate? Kevin at Chocolate Earth did the latter a few weeks back. Check out his cake FB page – Kevin Martin, Cake Designer. I think the images are on that page instead of the Chocolate EArth page.

Christine, Imaginarium Cakes, New Zealand. https://www.facebook.com/ImaginariumCakesNZ