What is a mooring buoy?

always approach a mooring buoy bow first slowly from the downwind side so when you tie off the boat can drift back with out fouling the mooring chain or line

Mooring buoys can be any colour.Most mooring buoys are not required to have a particular color (unless the marina or harbor designates one for mooring buoys).

There are no set colours. But harbourmasters would avoid using the same colours as navigational buoys

White buoy with horizontal blue stripe is designated as a mooring buoy.

White buoy with horizontal blue stripes