Our first real race.   CRAB is the Chesapeake Region Accessible Boating organization.  They have a regatta every August as a fundraiser.  (the real money comes from the party afterwards!)  So last Friday night after my son's football game (they won 52-7) I came home, packed up the car and Carol and I drove to the boat.  We got up early Sat morning and sailed down to Annapolis where we met Doug who crewed for us on the delivery back in May, and Thad, Carol's brother in law.  Heading out to the race area at Red #2 at the mouth of the Severn River it was getting quite blustery so we took a reef in the main and sailed around waiting for our start time.  This race used a pursuit style start so your start time was based on your handicap.
We nailed the start and made good speed to the first mark, rounded, shook out the reef and picked off a few more boats.  Rounding the second mark for the beat back to the finish it would have been nice to have taken a reef but...  Anyway,  we just could not get past this one boat on the upwind leg and I really wanted to come down a bit but they were in the way.  Finally I decided to duck them and take a chance w/ getting their bad air.  Just then they got hit by a gust and had to head up as we were easing our sails and ducking beneath them.  Perfect timing!  We shot by and in the process ensured that a few boats to windward of us weren't going to catch us.   Finished 10th out of 29 boats in our class.  Not bad for tired, old cruising sails and needing another 2 or 3 guys on the rail.  Party was okay, but it was raining and blowing 20 + knots. 
We waited out the weather and since the forecast for Sunday was even worse, we left Naptown at 8:15pm and motored to the Bay Bridge, right into the wind, then hoisted a reefed main and motorsailed the rest of the way. 
Sorta.  At the mouth of the Patapsco the engine decided to take a snooze, so we sailed up the river and in to Rock Creek.  Fortunately the wind was ENE and we made it most of the way in.  I fired up the engine as we dropped the main and we were about 150 yds from the slip when the engine quit again.  We drifted and as we slowed down I started rocking the boat like it was a dinghy and that was enough to coast into the slip!  Tied up the boat and looked at my watch; 1159pm  just as predicted.  
At 5am I was wakened by TORRENTIAL rain on the boat.  Good thing we came home the night before.

Still haven't figured out what the issue is w/ the engine but it seems to be fuel starvation. 
In the meantime I decided to change the sheaves on the deck organizers.  Thinking they were bolted into tapped backing plates I took the bolts out.  Nope, they went to washers and nuts up under the head liner.  Now I had to take the head liner down.  Nothing is ever easy on a boat.