Sense has prevailed in the Dick Tonks-Rowing New Zealand divorce.
The governing body will pay the sport's most successful coach upkeep until August to ensure single sculler Mahe Drysdale, and the likely women's double sculls combination of either Zoe Stevenson, Eve Macfarlane or Fiona Bourke, have the best chance of securing gold medals at the Rio Olympics.
Tonks will leave after that, bound for a future which will include no shortage of suitors as a coach who has mentored five Olympic gold medal-winning crews from the last four Games, with two more in the offing. He will work as an independent contractor outside the Rowing NZ's high performance programme, but his athletes will have full access to the facilities and resources.
The solution is equitable, pragmatic and achievable. No side lost face in the negotiations, although Tonks crossed into personal attacks when he said Peterson "couldn't run a bloody corner dairy".
For years, Tonks divided and ruled the rowing community with what some consider brutal methods, but no one can dispute his results.
