Are my sea fairing ways detrimental?

[Lucy]

I’ve only been playing a week and after reading through some posts around here I think I’ve reached a critical point in my characters development. I’m level 16 notoriety and have discovered that my notoriety is a bit bloated due to questing, so I’ve stopped that all together. I love sailing most of all, and second to that is womanning a cannon. My question is this, if I concentrate all my time and skill progression into those two areas will it come back to haunt me later, or will I still be able to catch up on my landlubber skills here and there during breaks from sailing about?