Greetings All,

So I was finished with exploring Solstheim for a while, and I had gathered up a lot of goodies to take back to my home in Skyrim. I was definitely over encumbered from everything I had gathered to take back, but I thought nothing of it. I'd just slowly walk from my house in Raven Rock where I had everything stored to the docks and set sail for home. Well, the captain took my hard-earned coin for his trouble, the loading screen flashed up like I'm going somewhere, and *poof* I'm still at the port in Raven Rock. I rinsed and repeated a few times with no luck, cleared the cache and trying again. All I got was the same result, and 250 less gold each time for the fails.

Finally, I tried stowing away items until I was under the encumberance limit and I tried again. This time I arrived at the port in Windhelm, so I'm all set. My guess is that the ship to and from Solstheim/Skyrim follows the same rules as fast traveling by foot, and you can't do that if you're over your carrying limit. I wouldn't really consider this a bug except 1.) You get your money taken each time it fails to take you anywhere, and 2.) It is isn't very realistic. I mean, it's like renting a u-haul truck to do a move, loading it full of stuff from your house, and then discovering the u-haul can't move because it's carrying more weight than you can carry.

I guess I'll be making several trips to move my items for a while. If this issue has been posted before feel free to delete it.

You are correct, much like the carriage (in Skyrim), you cannot successfully use the boat to travel between Raven Rock and Windhelm while over encumbered either due to a bug or the way the developers made the game.

Try summoning Arvak and then doing it.