The world's best female surfers may have to wait into the weekend before commencing the final event of this year's World Championship.
A fourth consecutive lay day was called at Honolua Bay on Tuesday, and a far stronger swell isn't expected to build until Saturday afternoon.
"The swell is doing what we expected it would and hasn't shown up for us to run any heats so we'll be off again today," World Surf League commissioner Jessi Miley-Dyer said.
"I do still hold faith that we're going to get something in this waiting period but being here in Honolua sometimes you have to wait that little bit longer."
The event has until December 4 to be completed and surfers are currently catching other waves around the island to keep themselves primed.
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Australians Tyler Wright and Dimity Stoyle will be involved in the first heat when the action eventually begins, while Keely Andrew and Sally Fitzgibbons will compete in later heats.
Hawaiian Carissa Moore holds a 900-point championship lead over American Courtney Conlogue.
