# Is Self-study available, as opposed to maritime academy training to save money?

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/is-self-study-available-as-opposed-to-maritime-academy-training-to-save-money/6779>\
**Category:** Professional Mariner Forum\
**Created:** [January 19, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/is-self-study-available-as-opposed-to-maritime-academy-training-to-save-money/6779 "2012-01-19T15:21:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jemplayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jemplayer/32/523_2.png) [@Jemplayer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jemplayer)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/is-self-study-available-as-opposed-to-maritime-academy-training-to-save-money/6779/21 "2012-01-23T07:47:06Z")

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I was the kid who read instruction manuals and computer books for fun growing up so Nate wasn’t to bad a read for me as long as I skipped the terrestrial and celestial formulas.

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**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/is-self-study-available-as-opposed-to-maritime-academy-training-to-save-money/6779/22 "2012-01-23T09:01:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Jemplayer;61456]I was the kid who read instruction manuals and computer books for fun growing up so Nate wasn’t to bad a read for me as long as I skipped the terrestrial and celestial formulas.[/QUOTE]

Obviously you aren’t engineer material then. Read the manuals. Yeah, as a last resort maybe.

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**Author:** ![jazzinator214](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@jazzinator214](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/jazzinator214)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/is-self-study-available-as-opposed-to-maritime-academy-training-to-save-money/6779/23 "2012-01-23T10:07:54Z")

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Thanks very much for all the great information in response to my question. Dave

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**Author:** ![Jemplayer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/jemplayer/32/523_2.png) [@Jemplayer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jemplayer)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/is-self-study-available-as-opposed-to-maritime-academy-training-to-save-money/6779/24 "2012-01-23T12:13:57Z")

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> [@"cmakin"](#):
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> Obviously you aren’t engineer material then. Read the manuals. Yeah, as a last resort maybe.

Exactly why I couldn’t cut it as an engineer. Always wanting to RTFM, hence the reason I’m in the wheel house.

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