Making a dash for it

We are up and prepared to leave our mooring on the canal below Loughborough if the phone call to British Waterways East Midlands at 8.45 says that the R.Soar and R.Trent have subsided back to amber - allowing us to proceed with caution. The weather coming in over the rest of the week looks as if we will be stuck here for several days if we don't get away today. The plan is a long dash up the River Soar, left onto the River Trent and through the lock at Sawley - Fletcher Floyd and I are preparing our water skis for this speedy trip!