The weather and very high river levels are delaying my practice outings, but my latest picture in the gallery shows today's morale-boosting step forward. Clementine now bears her name proudly, in a tastefully bordered lemon yellow to go with her bright orange.

The brilliant Paul Godsafe of http://www.glideboats.co.uk Glide Boats, Clemmy's creators, did the business, not because I am wholly incompetent and liable to get lettering all wobbly, but because the high density polyethylene which is responsible for the boat's excellent robustness is resistant to adhesives unless its polarity is changed by warming with a blowtorch. This is scientifically and technically a step too far for me. But Paul did the magic in moments, helped by my specially-constructed tarpaulin. The typeface is Britannic which I think goes nicely and is also the only marine-related font I could find on Gmail's list. I have to add that the real-life HMS Britannic - pic below - was the slightly larger White Star Line sister ship of the Titanic which was taken over as a hospital ship during the Dardenelles campaign and sunk by a mine off the Greek island of Kea in 1916. She is the largest wreck on the ocean floor, followed by the Titanic. But there are no mines in the Thames.