British skipper Ben Ainslie admitted his team were finding it hard to compete in light winds as a lack of breeze meant his first America's Cup semi-final against New Zealand was postponed until Monday.
"To be really honest we are not too unhappy about the situation right now ... in the very light airs we do struggle," Ainslie said.
After a two-hour wait on the island's Great Sound, the organisers of the event said they were postponing the four semi-final races scheduled for Sunday by 24 hours.
For racing to go ahead, America's Cup rules require a minimum average wind of 6 knots (11 kilometres per hour). Below this level is not enough for the high-tech 50-foot catamarans to lift out of the water and "fly" on their space-age foils.
"Light winds may have beaten us today, but we will be back tomorrow when there is a significantly better wind forecast," the event's organisers said on Twitter.
The crews in the first scheduled semi-final, Team New Zealand and Britain's Land Rover BAR, had sat on board their catamarans waiting to see if the wind would build, trying to stay out of the beating sun.
As the highest scoring challenger during the qualifier round which ended on Saturday, New Zealand chose Ainslie's team as their semi-final opponents, leaving Sweden's Artemis Racing and Team Japan to compete in the other.
The team which notches up five wins first progresses to the final to decide who will go on to challenge Team USA.
