Rex Sellers feels a bit like a taxi driver about to hang up the keys, but it wouldn't really be a surprise if he jumped back in the cab.
Sellers has been sailing this week with his son, Brett, at the Tornado world championships which wrapped up at Takapuna yesterday.
At 68, the two-time Olympic medallist thought before yesterday's racing it might be his last major regatta but the pair went into the world championships having claimed the national title against the same competition a few days earlier and yesterday finished fourth in a fleet of 23 boats.
Only boat damage, when an "unbreakable" part came away and meant they failed to finish two races, prevented them from collecting silver behind Australians Brett Burvill and Max Puttman. They otherwise finished in the top three in six of the 10 races, including two race wins, to end up one point off a bronze medal.
"Third is better than fourth but fourth is better than fifth," Sellers said pragmatically. "[The breakage] really put us on the back foot and we would have been second but, hey, that's yacht racing.