Keep your BoB in a proper life jacket and tagline with a large halyard clip at the bitter end. Keep the BoB next to your main hatchway. If you have to abandon ship, clip the tagline to your life jacket and jump overboard with your BoB in your arms.

Keep a signal mirror, whistle, water dye, and bic lighter (in a ziplock or 2) in your life jacket pockets.

If you can afford it, keep a MK79 pencil flare launcher in your life jacket pocket.

If you have a handheld vhf-fm radio, get a radio condom for it.

Know what you're going to grab on your way overboard and know how to get to it in the dark!!