In his History Project, Inc. oral history, Bruce Collins told interviewer Tony Prohaska that he piloted the steamer Shinnecock out of Amagansett for Jack Edwards from 1954 until 1960. That time range is used to date this image. Bruce Collins describes this image as "Set being made on the back side (term used by commercial fishermen for the ocean from the earliest das also sometimes call the south side). Collins points out William Simons Windmill along the coastline. The set is a refernce to the gathering of the purse nets, described in other images.