When you select a boat you can put the country code into the box provided,( For example GBR for Great Britain) or you can put your name there if you want. Also, the box for sail number can be used for a name by using letters instead of numbers. Just be sure you do not try to use too many letters.
"As far as I can remember, there aren't a lot of points of land or holidays named after people who sat at home and criticized Christopher Columbus." (Paul Cayard, from the Pirates base, in an e-mail to race HQ. 25 Jan 2006 volvooceanrace.org)