A Buoy.
Is that peece of wood, barrell, or the like, which floates right over the Anchor, and is made fast by the buoy roape unto the flooke; The use whereof, is not only to take knowledge where the Anchor, but also to waigh the Anchor with the boate, which is sooner done then to weigh it with the ship: Sterne the Buoy, that is, before they let the Anchor fall, whilst the ship hath way, they put the Buoy into the water, so that the Buoy roape may be stretched out strait, and then the Anchor will fall cleere from entangling it selfe with the buoy roape. Buoyant, is any thing that is floating or apt to floate: To buoy up a cabell, that is to make fast a peece of floating wood, barrell or the like, to the cabell, somewhat neere to the Anchor, that the cabell may not touch the ground; this we doe in foule grounds, where we feare the cutting of our cabells: There are Buoyes also which doe belong to ships, and these are left at an Anchor in the sea, to shew where any dan∣ger is of sands or rocks: these are especially most needfull to be used, where the sands doe use to alter, or where we can have no fitting land∣marke.