There was no movement on the Amlin International Moth Regatta leaderboard yesterday as racing was postponed due to light winds.

The race committee did manage to start the sixth race in about eight knot breezes in the Great Sound.

However, proceedings were halted about 35 minutes into the race with the majority of the fleet yet to complete one lap on the 1.3 mile windward-leeward racecourse.

“When we started we had about eight knots, and I think probably more than half of the fleet were foiling, and then it just went down and down,” David Campbell-James, the principal race officer, said.

Leading the pack when racing was stopped was Chris Draper, of SoftBank Team Japan, one of several America’s Cup sailors competing this week.

“I was just about to cross the finish line when I saw the abandon flag,” Draper said.

“It was a reasonable lead and I had worked hard for the whole race.

“There was around ten of us that foiled the whole way around, and 40-plus boats not having much fun, so you can understand why they [the race committee] made the decision.”

After five races British sailors Chris Rashley, Robert Greenhalgh and Simon Hiscocks occupied the top three spots on the leaderboard. Rashley, who celebrated his 27th birthday with two bullets on Tuesday, is tied on points with Greenhalgh, but ahead on the tiebreaker rule, having won the last race sailed.

Seventh overall is Ben Paton, the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club sailing coach, who is also representing Great Britain.

Further down the pecking order in 46th is James Doughty, the sole Bermudian sailor competing in the high-performance foiling dinghy which has become popular among America’s Cup sailors.

The race committee are now keeping their fingers crossed that they can get another five races completed before racing concludes tomorrow.

“We can still make ten or eleven races, which is still a good championship, and the advantage of ten is that we have a second discard,” Campbell-James said.