"Can" buoys are navigational aids. they are black / green and have a flat top. They represent the right side (starboard side) of the navigational waterway when heading north or east. The left side of the waterway (port side) is designated by a red buoy with a pointed top. It is referred to as a "nun buoy" as opposed to "can buoy."
Buoy is a homophone for boy. A buoy is a floating object used to mark a location in a body of water.
An anchor buoy is a small buoy attached to an anchor by a light line and used to indicate the position of an anchor.
The word is buoy.
The term used to describe the anchor buoy when it is floating on the surface above the anchor is "marker buoy" or simply "buoy." This device is used to indicate the location of the anchor underwater, making it easier for boaters to retrieve the anchor or to mark a specific spot in the water.
Achoragae area
a horizontally marked red and black buoy used to mark the division of sea lanes when moving inward from the sea.
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White buoy with blue
blue stripe
This is a mooring buoy or mooring ball. They are used in either a public or private capacity to moor your vessel to. In a way it acts as an anchor for your vessel. Instead of dropping an anchor though, you simply pull up to the buoy and slip on a line (rope) and make fast. It also the ONLY acceptable buoy you may do this to.
mooring buoy
Buoy can be a verb. Her presence would always buoy my spirits.