Rastus Racing

12/10/2026

Thank you to the lads at Banister Marine for looking after little blue rocket. Great work ❤️❤️💙💙

04/10/2026

It’s all aboard the Knights train for the NRL Grand Final tonight. There’s a fair bit of excitement in the camp. The beers are cold and the bbq’s at the ready.

Cmon lads, Let’s Go
💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️

Newcastle Knights

24/09/2026

Check out this video of our weekend at Windsor, from our heat races, the final, the rollover, recovery and a bit of a debrief.

It’s another great video from Howard from Astill Design.

Once again a great display from the boat racing community on how much help and offers of support we had. The amount of people that have reached out to us has been quite humbling.

Thank you once again to everyone that helped get our little blue rocket back on the trailer without further damage.

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Rastus – From Race Day Adrenaline to a Sinking Speed Boat!Join us...

22/09/2026

Windsor Spectacular 2026 is complete. As they say in Motorsport, it can give you the highest of highs and the lowest of lows and for us, it was all in one day.

We timed 2nd quick in Quali behind Lock n Load. Out of pole 2 in our first heat and managed to get around the outside of Lock n Load for the win. An absolute cracking race. Race 2 out of pole 2 with Lock n Load on the outside of us and this time they got the win in another great race. The stage was set for an epic final and for a lap and a half the boys put on a show. And that race fans is where it went to 💩. Steve took the ride, skipped off the wake of Lock n Load and barrel rolled. The boat landed upright but quickly sank due to the amount of water injected from the tumble 😔. Steve got out fine and unhurt thankfully.

The boat sustained some damage to the right side and transom and the motor has faired reasonably well. We had it apart Sunday night for a clean and quick visual.

That’s most likely it for Rastus for 2026 and we’ll hopefully be back on the water for Melton in February.

We’re shifting our focus to Matiese’s new boat which we hope to have on the water soon.

We can’t do this without are legendary sponsors,

Wescranes Ptyltd
Wheeler Cranes & Services Pty Ltd
Brett's Maintenance and Welding
Easylift Towing Pty Ltd
Omen Race Engines
DoctorMak Engines
Trade Auto Parts

Video is from the final and a little extra from the legend rescue team who picked up the GoPro and got more footage. 💪🏻

19/09/2026

While the day didn’t end well 😔. We wanted to say a massive THANK YOU to all the rescue crew and all the lads down the ramp for helping us get our little blue rocket back on the trailer.

Steve is a bit sore but overall in good spirits. We’re having a couple of quiet ones and talking a fair bit of bu****it 😂😂.

Boats faired well, not so sure on the engine 😔.

From us (the crew) were just glad our fearless leader is fine.

This photo is off our GoPro that got wiped off. Whilst in the water, Steve asked one of the rescue crew to do a bit of filming. To that legend, thank you 🥃🥃😂😂

19/09/2026

Race 1 out of pole 2. Had an epic race with Lock n Load. Snuck over for the win ‘just’. Super excited.

So cool to be part of a race like this.

Just 2 mates having a crack.

19/09/2026

It’s Race Day legends. Hoping the waters as nice as this run from yesterday. Turn the volume up and enjoy 9000 of this fine little ford.

18/09/2026

Day 1 of Windsor Spectacular -Round 3 of the Kavanagh Auto Parts 6 Litre Drivers Championship in the books.

The boats going well and we’ve timed in second quick behind the super fast Lock n Load for qualifying.

Looking forward to the weekends racing.

Video is from our quali lap 💪🏻

Thanks as always goes to the legends that support us
Wescranes
Brett’s Maintenance and Welding
Doctor Mak Engines
Easy Lift Towing
Omen Race Engines

15/08/2026

A weekend wrap from Howard Astill. Enjoy

National Drivers Championship | Dargle Water Ski Park 🏁🔥Get ready...

02/08/2026

Thinking of our friend Tate, his family and the whole Lay It On crew after his accident yesterday. He’s in good hands and praying for a speedy recovery.

Being on the water with him, watching the rescue crews and people on the ramp help him in extremely difficult circumstances, shows the community boat racing has.

❤️❤️❤️