Weather - Partly Sunny with temperature 58-60 degrees, winds out of the SW 12 knots with gusts to 20. Singlehanded day! Pulled out of the slip about 10:30 am after doing some last minute preps - setting up jack lines. Decided that I was going to reef just to be careful. Sailed down Lankford Creek towards the Chester River, having to do a series of tacks since the creek runs basically north/south. Once I got in to the Chester, the winds picked up significantly and some issues came up fairly quickly. The biggest problem was that I had not properly set the softshackle that I use on the Genoa - and the Jib Sheets pulled through and I lost control of the Genoa. Trying to think quickly, I made a turn back up the creek - and released the main sheet so that I was running with just the main - hoping to get up the creek and into the western fork so I could anchor and reattach the sheets to the genoa. I also furled the genoa to keep it from flapping around. At first the plan was working, but then the genoa began to unravel a bit - so I tethered to the jacklines, made my way up to the bow and tried to wrap the genoa up a bit and then used some line to tie it up. This worked and allowed me to get up the creek and into a little alcove where I anchored behind some trees so it was calm. I fixed the connection between the soft shackle and the jib sheets (and did it right this time). In the meantime, I discovered that a slider on the main had broken so I replaced that at the same time. Decided to stay in the back creek and sailed around for a while before heading back to Lankford Bay Marina. A fun and exciting day - certainly glad the first mate (wife) wasn't aboard - as she would not have found it as exciting!