Floating Mooring Marker Buoys Marine Safety Equipment With Solar Light Mooring Buoy

How To Use Floating Mooring Marker Buoys Correctly

It’s important to use a floating mooring marker buoy correctly to prevent unnecessary wear and tear on the mooring system, as well as protect your vessel and the vessels of others. The mooring buoy is strong, easy to handle, maintenance-free, and resistant to UV and freezing.​

• Buoys are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Steer the boat from a helm station that enables you to see the buoy during the entire hook up.
• Approach slowly from downwind or down current, so that the floating yellow pick-up line is closest to you. Keep the buoy on the same side as the helm station so you can see it as you approach.
• Safely retrieve the yellow pick-up line with a boat hook. Put your vessel in neutral to avoid entanglement.
• Run your boat’s bow line through the loop of the yellow pick-up line. Cleat both ends of your bow line to the bow of your boat. Never tie the yellow pick-up line directly to your boat as it puts undue stress on the mooring anchor. Never stern tie to a buoy either as this is both dangerous to you and your boat, but also puts undue strain on the mooring system.
• Release enough line so that the buoy is not pulled underwater and the line is level. Bad days may require more rows. Adding an extra rope will provide a more comfortable experience when your ship is anchored and reduce the wear and tear of the buoy system.
• Check the buoys tied to your boat; you are responsible for your boat. Check if it is stored as expected and report the problem to any shelter.
• When you are ready to leave, loosen the bow line of the bow and pull it through the loop of the yellow pickup line. Then stay away from the mooring lines so you don't get scale on any mooring lines.​

Additional Attention Points of Floating Mooring Marker Buoys

• At many reefs, floating mooring marker buoys encircle the shallowest reef areas or are located on the ocean side of the reef. Approach floating mooring marker buoys from around either side of these shallow areas, always steering to the outside of a ring of buoys. Never motor directly across a shallow reef to get to a buoy.
• You should keep idling/not waking up near the boat buoy. Do not meander between buoys and watch out for swimmers, snorkelers, and divers foam.
• If there are no buoys available, anchor only in sand, never in coral. Always check to be sure that your anchor is not dragging and your anchor chain is not contacting coral.
• Encourage smaller ships to moor to each other, thereby allowing larger ships to enter the buoy.
• When the sailboat is on the buoy, it should not drop the large sail like a stable sail; this puts a lot of pressure on the bolts of the mooring ring.
• Buoy locations have been spaced to provide clearance for most boats when tied up during normal conditions. To avoid grounding, use caution when approaching and while tied to a buoy. Larger-than-average vessels must check depths so that contact with the bottom is avoided.

Specification of Floating Mooring Marker Buoys

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