Video: Seminar Preview for IBEX 2025 “Perils of Paint”

Front Street Shipyard’s paint department manager Bill Robishaw is co-leading a discussion about yacht coatings at IBEX 2025, October 7-9 in Tampa, Florida. Alongside Juan Carlos España of Peake Coatings, they’ll discuss how setting up and spraying the perfect paint job is always a challenge, regardless of the customer’s color choice. Runs, pinholes, dust, and clouds are top of mind for any professional paint pro. But what happens when the paint color itself becomes part of the challenge? Recent changes in how paint colors are mixed by manufacturers or vendors have resulted in inconsistencies within the same color shades. These small differences in color tones make big differences in paint work that requires many gallons of the same shade or repair work that depends on a color match. Our panel of coatings pros will discuss the current challenges in color matching, and they’ll share case studies of paint jobs gone wrong—and made right—when color becomes a variable in the perfect paint job. Seminar presented by ABBRA.