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If you fancy following the Vendee in a bit more detail I'm writing a blog called http://jonnymalbon.com. Jonny's the 34 year old skipper of another British boat called Artemis. I'm his brother and his friends and family are working together to cover the 26,000 mile race using only a blog and Twitter. Jonny is 'tweeting' from the boat as he goes (as far as we know this is a first) and they go directly onto the blog. Come and let us know what you think. It's all a bit of an experiment but it's fun. We're using free media to see if we can do something different and a bit more organic than the 'official' race sites.