Chanteyranger
I think it was the reaction of a real chanteyman who objected to non-seafarers "putting on the agony" (to borrow a phrase from Pete Seeger)
Hugill's voice, of course, had lost its edge when he started
recording so I always assumed some "sour grapes" in view of Bert &
Ewan's stronger & more vibrant vocal chords!
In the other direction, Bert often scoffed at Stan's lack of
"scholarship" in Stan's magnum opus (Shanties of the Seven Seas)
Not in a nasty way but, again, you can see how clashes occur
BTW Bert once reviewed Dominic's "Posterity be Damned" with
the headline "Nothing to declare"
And even Ewan & Bert often quarrelled eg on the source of FourLoom
Weaver.
Here again you feel it was Bert's superior knowledge versus
the less-informed "folk"
I loved them all

stan kelly