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I only wish there was a way to inspect this area with out removing the antenna.
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Boat structures (decks, cabin sides and even hulls) are often laminate constructions, not unlike our motorhome walls, for the same reasons: Weight and streamlining of production. Except unlike our cores which are made of styrofoam or similar, boat cores are traditionally balsa wood and increasingly a variety of closed cell foams. This for strength as the load on a boat are quite a bit more than on our walls.
Like our walls and roofs, water gets in. Balsa rots quite nicely, the closed cell foam not so much, but de-lamination can and does take place.
Surveyors, the marine version of a home inspector/appraiser in one, look for this. One of the tools they have is a moisture meter. They come in a range of quality, and interpreting their readings is part science and part art. They mostly help you determine if the moisture content in one area is very different from an adjacent area. The number per se is a lot less reliable.
Here's a cheaper one:
https://www.amazon.com/General-Tools...moisture+meter
So, you could crawl around your roof once a year and see if there are any areas that look suspect, AND keep track of changes year over year. (Make a map with readings.....)
Don't have this added into my maintenance routine yet. But I may get bored at the 5 year mark and do some scooping up there.....
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