I've used the technique alluded to earlier as my bow eye is too low to reach also.
Assuming you've figured out a way to grab hold of the buoy, I attach to the buoy by looping through the buoy eye to one of my bow cleats using a spare line I use for this purpose. Once I'm ready, I climb into the "tender" (a small rowboat in our case), row around to the bow and hook on my permanent buoy line to the bow eye. Then I release the spare line from the cleat, pull it free of the buoy, and row away.
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