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    Recycle your broken spars

    November 10, 2009

    In the past week I was speaking with two different sailboat racers who explained they each took their broken masts to the public amenity recycle centre in Ballyogan.

    And they each paid €20 for the privilege of dumping their spars!

    Aluminium is a commodity and scrap metal merchants will purchase bent and broken masts and stainless steel.  Here is what I have done in the past:

    Prices vary during the year depending upon international demand, but a tenner is a tenner!

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