Does this one float your boat then Lily?

Lily Allen was enjoying a rather warmer start to 2009 than those of us in freezing London.

The singer was photographed on a yacht in the Caribbean with several male acquaintances and wading in the surf on a St Barts beach.

Allen, 23, appeared to be particularly close to one of her companions amid suggestions that this could be the new, older boyfriend she has been hinting at recently. Her previous two boyfriends, DJ Seb Chew and Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers, have both been older.

Allen has been in the Caribbean for a week, but is due back in London this month where she will play at Koko in Camden. Her new record, It's Not Me, It's You, is released next month.